After over two decades of study, scientists have officially named Daturodendron absconditum, a new genus of tree discovered in the Colombia...

Canadian researchers are employing AI and camera traps to monitor the rapid decline of insect populations. The project, called Antenna, aim...

A study led by the University of Birmingham reveals that human-induced bird extinctions over 1,30,000 years have dramatically reduced birds...

Climate change threatens plants and animals as temperatures rise. Some species adapt, like dragonflies getting paler and mustard plants flo...

A giant flying bug discovered on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas by Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identific...

The iconic orange-and-black insect is one of the most recognisable butterflies in the world.

If you've ever seen a cockroach, you've probably noticed that their bodies are very flat. This is not an accident.

Ten endangered species of migratory animals/birds from across the globe, including three from India (Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant a...

New York, Aug 8 (IANS) The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes that you enjoy today have attracted even dinosaurs 65 milion years ag...

The species name, astropulvis, translates from Latin to 'star dust'.

No doubt before this century is out, insects will have developed an entirely new relationship with the only other species on the planet tha...

Malaria is often thought to be of more modern origin- caused primarily by one genus of protozoa & spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

Sir Elton John’s music inspires important scientific research, but the fact that a new species of crustacean has been named Leucothoe elton...

A rare spider species which was believed to be extinct, has been found in the jungles of Melghat in Maharashtra's Amravati district.

According to the study, an analysis of the ancient specimen, named Manipulator modificaputis, suggests that it was a predatory insect, like...

The researchers have named the new family the Eorpidae, after the Eocene Epoch, the age when these insects lived some 50 million years ago.

Global warming may drive many wild varieties of plants such as potatoes and peanuts to extinction by mid-century, wiping out traits that mi...